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Eiseman (Sit Weil's 

DAYLIGHT CORNER 

Is the first building and one of the most prominent corners of Atlanta's 
principal retail street. It contains four spacious floors, one below and 
three above the "Viaduct." The first floor is devoted to Men's and 
Youths' Clothing, Hats, Furnishings and Shoes. The entire second floor 
contains Wearing Apparel for Boys from 2j4 to 17 years. A parcel room is 
provided for visitors, also reception rooms where they can rest and at the 
same time see scenes of life and activity suggestive of the busiest thorough- 
fares in the great metropolitan cities. The third floor contains the Tailor- 
ing Department and reserve stock. The firm is composed of Messrs. Jacob 
Eiseman and Sigmund Weil, both of whom have grown up with the city ; 
Mr. Eiseman having been identified with the retail business here for over 
forty years, and Mr. Weil for twenty-five years. They are the 
pioneers of the "One Price, Plain Figure" System. Their store is well 
named, being one of the brightest in America. You see what you are 
buying and you can buy only that which is up to the minute and reliable at 

"TKe Daylight Corner" 



Hill R. Hdffman 



Successor to 
HUFFMAN & WAGENER 



BUILDERS' 
SU PPLIES 

Candler Building ATLANTA 

Architectural T^rra Cotta 

Indiana Limestone 

Structural Steel and 

Ornamental Iron 

Press Brick, Lime, Cements 

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General Offices and Retail Store of McClure Ten Cent Company, 
McClure Building, Mitchell and Forsyth Streets, Atlanta, Ga. 



McCIure Ten -Cent Co. 

Only Strictly Southern Syndicate 

From one store to an immense wholesale establishment and seven retail 
stores in a few years tells the story of a business success hardly equaled in 
the entire country. This is the archievement of the McClure Ten-Cent Co., 
with headquarters in Atlanta and branches in five other cities — the only 
strictly Southern syndicate operating 5- and lo-cent stores. The McClure 
establishments carry immense stocks of China, Glassware, Notions, Nov- 
elties, Kitchen Wares, etc., and sell no article at more than one dollar. 

Two Stores in Atlanta 



63 Whitehall Street 

Corner Hunter 



38-40 W. Mitchell Street 

Corner Forsyth 



Stores also in Birmingham, Marietta, Brunswick, Griffin and Athens. 



New Large Up-to-Date 

Department Store 

Opposite Post Office 

60 MARIETTA STREET 

Southern Dry Goods and Shoe Co. 

I N C O R P O R i\ T £ D 

PHONE 3500 

SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONERY, RUBBERS, UNDERWEAR 

DRY GOODS 

Ladies' Goods, Men's Furnishings, Notions, 

Hosiery, Collars, Laces, Ribbons, 

Handkerchiefs, Embroideries, 

Corsets, Trimmings, 

Linens, Linings 

MAD£ £XPR.ESSI^Y FOR US 

SLIPPERS and 

SHOEvS 

Direct from Factory- and £-very Pair Guaranteed 

E. PIERCE, President 

Busy Department Store 

OO Marietta Street 

Opposite Post Oifice 



$30,000 



CLEAN SWEEP SALE 

NOW^ GOING ON 



STANDARD CITY GUIDE 
OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA 



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1907 



Editorial Note. — In order to make this work as clear and comprehen- 
sive as possible, we have, in the mention made of the various points of 
interest, endeavored to locate them ; giving full directions how to reach 
them, and all necessary information regarding them. The same in re- 
gard to the illustrations; each cut is fully located in the cut line be- 
neath. We believe this method will be appreciated as a better directory 
than a more or less complex and mystifying index. With the contents 
and the map as guides, we are sure that all desired information can be 
easily and readily had. 



INTRODUCTORY 

In presenting the Standard City Guide of Atlanta we have 
endeavored to produce an annual that will not only appeal to 
the tourist in particular, and the traveling public generally, 
but to people of our own city and section as well. 

It is a matter of fact that the city, rich in historic points of 
interest, contains very few persons who can, with readiness, 
point them out. We are a moving, restless people, and de- 
pend upon local guide-posts for information when wanted, 
rather than upon familiarizing ourselves with such subjects; 
hence, we expect to find a welcome into the offices, the count- 
ing-rooms and the homes of the city. 

From authentic and reliable data, we have compiled a book 
of original matter, in which we have tried to be full, accurate 
and comprehensive; without ambiguity, but clear in detail. 
Our illustrations are views selected, with the sole purpose in 
mind, of presenting the city's attractions in such manner as to 
support every claim to distinction, which is made in the printed 
matter, as one of the most progressive and prosperous cities 
in America. This accomplished, we shall feel our recompense 
of reward for labor expended largely augmented thereby. 

With this, we send forth the Standard City Guide of At- 
lanta as an annual publication ; pointing ever to the open por- 
tals of the Gate City, and bidding welcome to the good and 
true of every station and from every clime. 

The: PubIvIShe:rs. 



CONTENTS 

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ATi,ANTA : Rise and Progress 3 

Event of thb Decade (1895 Exposition) 11 

batti.e of ati.anta , 15 

ATi,ANTA Today ; Not Tomorrow 19 

City Parks and Pi^easure Resorts 38 

Ati^anta's Historic Batti,efiei.ds 44 

Residentiai. Sections and Driveways 47 

Churches and Auxii^iaries 51 

Many Charming Suburbs 61 

Monuments to Great Georgians 62 

STATE Capitoi. 69 

Carnegie IvIbrary 69 

State IvIbrary 71 

Georgia Schooi. of Technoi^ogy 73 

Grady Memoriai, Hospitai, 74 

Negro Education 74 

Ci^UBS AND Club Homes 78 

AtivAnta's Splendid Hotels 81 

Secret Orders of the City 81 

Fort McPherson 85 

ivabor and its relation to public affairs 88 

Benevolent and Charitable Institutions 88 

ATLANTA Has Three Great Papers 89 

Commercial Organizations 92 

Associated Charities 92 

Rescue Work of Women 93 

Medical and Dental Colleges 93 

United States Penitentiary 97 

Terminal Stations — Passenger 97 

Street Railway System 97 

Theatrical Attractions . . . 102 

Public Schools 103 

Soldiers' Home 103 

Monuments to Confederate Dead 107 

Veterans — associations of 107 

Bridges and Viaducts iii 

Freight Terminals iii 

Official Headquarters of Atlanta 118 

County Court House 118 

Governor's Mansion 118 

Fire Department 118 

Police Department . . . ^ 122 

Chamber of Commerce 122 

Clearing House Association 123 

Cemeteries of the City 123 

Atlanta of Tomorrow 125 



ATLANTA 

THE METROPOLIS OF 
THE SOUTH 




With Over 80 Illustrations from Photographs 



"Written and Compiled 
by 

J. D. CLEATON 



ATI^ANTA : 

THK FRANKI^IN-TURNER CO 

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1907 



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Atlanta: Rise and Progress 



Atlanta has been so often the theme of the historian; so 
many times has the story been told of her wonderful growth 
and enterprise before the Civil War, her phoenix-like rise 
from a baptism of fire, shot and shell in '64, and her brilliant 
achievements as illustrated in the Atlanta of to-day, that her 
remarkable history is "known and read of all men." And her 
great future is no less assured than her past is a matter of 
wondrous fact. 

To the querry : What has made Atlanta the thrifty, prosper- 
ous and substantial city that she is to-day ? The answer is : 
Location. Atlanta is not an accident. Three surveyors' tran- 
sits, under the eyes of skilled engineers who were seeking an 
outlet from the sea to the great West, by the location of three 
lines of railroad, all focused upon the same spot; and upon 
that spot Atlanta stands to-day. 

The Western & Atlantic was the first railroad completed 
to this point, and the place was called ''Terminus." This was 
in 1843, ^^*^' Terminus was but a village. Two years later 
the Georgia Railroad, from Augusta, ran its first train into 
the town, and amid great rejoicing, it was declared that as a 
railroad center, the town should have a name of more sig- 
nificance, and it was called Marthasville; but with the com- 
pletion of the Macon & Western Railroad, now part of the 
Central of Georgia, in 1846, the name of the (now) young 
city was changed to Atlanta, and by special Act of the Legis- 
lature in 1847, a charter was granted to "The City of At- 
lanta," which then had a population of about three thousand. 

With the completion of the Georgia Railroad from Au- 
gusta to Atlanta, traffic was opened up to Charleston, S. C, 
and the Macon & Western, connecting Macon with the Cen- 
tral, gave through transportation to Savannah, and the object 
of the Legislature of Georgia, when on the 21st of Decem- 
ber, 1836, "an Act authorizing the construction of a railroad 
communication by the State from some point on the Tennes- 
see line, subsequently extended to the Tennessee river, to some 
point on the southeastern bank of Chattahoochee river, which 



4 ATLANTA UP-TO-DATE 

should be most eligible for the extension of branches thence to 
other important points in Georgia," was passed. 

Regarding the growth and progress of Atlanta, before the 
Civil War, we could not present more reliable history than to 
quote from Mr. G. B. Haygood, father of the late Bishop At- 
ticus G. Haygood, of Georgia, and himself a leading lawyer 
of his day. Mr. Haygood, in an historical sketch of Atlanta, 
written in 1859, says: 

Atlanta is situated seven miles southeast of the Chattahoochee river, on 
the dividing ridge between the waters of the Atlantic and the Gulf of 
Mexico, on the 34th parallel of north latitude, at an elevation of 1,050 
feet above the level of the sea. Atlanta has had a growth unexampled 
in the history of the South. In 1854 the population had reached 6,025. 
The increase for several years had averaged 1,000 per annum. On the ist 
of April, 1859, it is ascertained by the census taken under the State au- 
thority to be 11,500 souls. 

The assessed value of the real estate in the city the present year, 1859, is 
$2,760,000, and the personalty, cash, merchandise, etc., in proportion. The 
number of stores in 1854 was 57, exclusive of drinking saloons. The 
amount of goods sold in 1853 was $1,017,000, and the amount sold in 1858 
is not known with accuracy, but it is believed to have been about $3,000,- 
000, and is now rapidly increasing. It is widening and extending the area 
of its supply on every side. Dry goods are sold to the country for over 
100 miles around, on terms as favorable to purchasers as the retail mar- 
kets of the great Northern cities, New York itself not excepted, and still 
our merchants are prosperous, thrifty and energetic. No respectable house 
here had to suspend during the severe crisis in commercial affairs in 
1857 and 1858. 

The city was first brilliantly lighted with gas, manufactured from Geor- 
gia, Alabama and Tennessee coal, on the 25th of December, 1855. The 
incorporated shape of the city is a circle two miles in diameter, with a 
handle of half a mile in length and 600 yards wide, running along the lines 
of the Macon & Western Railroad. It covers a portion of 16 original 
land lots, which were laid off upon a plan to suit the views of the re- 
spective owners, and hence our streets are not all so regular in width, 
and uniform in direction as is desirable ; many of them being much too 
narrow for public convenience. 

The city hall and county court house is a convenient, commodious and 
handsome structure, erected in 1854 and 1855, at a cost of a little over 
$30,000. It is 70x100 feet in size, two stories high, of fine architectural pro- 
portion and design, well adapted to the uses intended; is elegantly fin- 
ished throughout, surmounted by an imposing dome, and is alike creditable 
to the city and the artist. 

The medical college is now in its fifth course of lectures, all delivered 
in the summer, with a larger class than any former one, numbering 166 
students. It has had its day of probation, trial and difficulties, but is now 



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a decided success, and its enemies and rivals have almost ceased to per- 
secute it. It has an able and efficient faculty, and a very complete chemical 
apparatus, and is collecting a very respectable museum. 

The population of the city is remarkable for its activity and enterprise. 
Most of the inhabitants came here for the purpose of bettering their for- 
tunes by engaging actively in some kind of business, and thus presents the 
anomaly of having very few aged persons residing in it; and our people 
show their democratic impulses by each allowing his neighbor to attend to 
his own business. Our ladies are even allowed to attend to their own 
domestic and household affairs, without being ruled out of respectable 
society. 

The mechanical element prevails in our city, and the major part of them 
are enterprising, thrifty and prosperous men who are rapidly rising in 
public esteem. 

The health of the city is almost unprecedented, being entirely exempt 
from the usual summer and fall fevers, cholera, etc. No epidemic has ever 
prevailed here and the bills of mortality show a state of health almost with- 
out a parallel. 

This practically brings Atlanta up to the Civil War period. 
The two preceding years gave the city the usual annual in- 
crease of i,ooo; for the population at the outbreak of the war 
was between 13,000 and 14,000. 

Never a "boom town" in the sense that the term ''boom" 
implies, Atlanta's progress has, from the first to the last, been 
characterized by that active, energetic forward movement, 
which offered no occasion for pyrotechnic display. There has 
never been a time when the various methods usually employed 
to "boom" a town were necessary. Steadily and rapidly has 
been the growth; while every year, great as the progress of 
the previous year may have been, marks still greater enlarge- 
ment. 

In 1865 there was no Atlanta. A few scattering houses, 
some of them shot-ridden, the business sections in heaps of 
smoking ruins, all that was left of the proud little city was a 
mass of wreckage. But Atlanta's commanding position was 
left to build upon. The same spirit that builded a city, of 
small proportions before, could build a greater. And it did. 
And just here it may be well to note a fact which is often ig- 
nored, and that is : that it was Southern spirit. Southern enter- 
prise, and Southern brains that made Atlanta, and some of the 
most active and effective builders of the new city's fortunes 
were men who had been most active in guiding the destines 
of the old. As evidence of this note the following names, all 
familiar, and a number of them living to-day: Augustus D. 
Adair, Needom L. Angier, S. S. Beach, Sidney Root, Charles 



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Beerman, Marcus A. and Margenius A. Bell, William A. 
Markham, Logan E. Bleckley, B. H. Overby, Zion Bridwell, 
Perino Brown, Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, W. L. Calhoun, C. P. 
Cassin, John M. Clarke and Thomas M. Clarke, John C. Col- 
lier, Green T. and Philip Dodd, James D., R. S. and Volney 
Dunning, L. J. Gartrell, Joseph Gatins, L. J. Glenn, Thomas 
L. Cooper, Amos W. and N. J. Hammond, C. R. Hanleiter, R. 
B. Harrison, John J. Harwell, Green B. Haygood, Thomas 
Healey, H. P. and N. R. Ivy, C. Kontz, H. G. Kuhrt, E. and 
Lewis Lawshe, Dr. Joseph Logan, Peter Lynch, Robert J. 
Massey, John H. Mecaslin, A. W. Mitchell, Jonathan Nor- 
cro'ss, John Neal, James H. Neal, Daniel Pittman, J. H. Purtell, 
Z. A. Rice, T. R. Ripley, Dr. E. J. Roach, John Ryan, John 
H. Seals, Joseph Thompson, John J. Thrasher, H. M. Wal- 
lace, Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland, William J. Widby, Isaac 
Winship. 

When peace was declared in 1865, the immediate recon- 
struction and rehabilitation of Atlanta began. Refugees re- 
turned ; thousands of others who, as if by prophetic ken, fore- 
saw the possibilities for the future, gathered together their 
holdings and cast their lot with the city. Business of all kinds 
sprang up. Many rude shanties were improvised as store- 
houses; an immense wagon trade, principally from the moun- 
tains of northeast Georgia, poured, its stores of produce into 
the city and carried away their worth in the necessities of 
which four years of war had deprived the people. In 1866 the 
population numbered 20,228, and property values aggregated 
$7,000,000. 

In 1868 the Legislature of Georgia, by enactment removed 
the capitol from Milledgeville to Atlanta, and the Kimball 
Opera House, situated at Marietta and Forsyth streets, the 
largest and finest structure in the city, perhaps, at that, time, 
was rented from Mr. H. I. Kimball by the city, and tendered 
to the State, and it was accepted and used as a State house 
until 1889, when the present splendid million-dollar capitol 
was completed and occupied. 

In 1870 the Census returns of the government gave At- 
lanta 22,000 population. The railroads had repaired their 
tracks, rebuilt their shops, gotten rolling stock and locomo- 
tives in repair, and the city was in a great measure upon a 
settled basis. Railroad building throughout the State was in 
progress, and every line being constructed was to benefit the 



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city, either directly or indirectly. Within the decade, 1870- 
1880, were built the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railroad, 
The Northeastern, a branch line of the former, extending from 
Lula City to Athens, Ga. ; the East Tennessee, Virginia & 
Georgia, and the Georgia Pacific, from Atlanta to Birming- 
ham, Ala. All of these roads, independent when constructed, 
are now embraced in the Southern Railway System. 

The Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern Railroad, extending 
first from Marietta, Ga., to Murphy, N. C, and penetrating 
the great marble beds of North Georgia, was completed in 
1887. As its name indicates, it was always intended that 
Atlanta was to be the southern terminus, which fact was ac- 
complished when it became a part of the Great Louisville & 
Nashville system. 

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad system is now one of At- 
lanta's strongest feeders, and the Atlanta, Birmingham & 
Atlantic Railroad is its latest acquisition in transportation 
lines. 

In 1870 the Kimball House was built by Mr. H. L Kimball 
at a cost of nearly $500,000. The Markham House was, a 
few years later, built at the foot of Wall street upon Central 
avenue, and for many years was a popular hotel. It was de- 
stroyed by fire, with practically the entire block upon which 
it stood, in 1895. It has been replaced by a number of splen- 
did business houses. 

As in railroad improvements, and building, so in every line, 
the period from 1870 to 1880 was one of activity and progress. 
Atlanta's public school system was organized in 1871, al- 
though two years previous, active steps began for its estab- 
lishment. In 1875 the city purchased 350 acres of land two 
miles south of the city limits, on South river, and constructed 
its first water-works plant. This was abandoned in 1893, and 
the present extensive and excellent system, which consists of 
a pumping station at Chattahoochee river, and a relay plant 
reservoir, filtering basins, etc., at Hemphill station, a half-way 
ground from the river to the city was built. All of the ma- 
chinery and appliances are modern, and Atlanta is assured of 
an abundance of pure water for all time. 

In 1875-76 the United States custom house and postofiice 
was constructed upon a lot donated by the city of Atlanta. 
The building cost $275,000. This building has long since be- 
come inadequate to the demands upon its floor space, being 



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used as a court-house, Revenue Collector's and United States 
Marshal's offices, as well as a postoffice and custom house. The 
government is now erecting, upon an entire block, bounded by 
Walton, Forsyth, Fairlie and Poplar streets, a building which 
will cost $1,000,000, and which will relieve a much congested 
condition, and provide creditable quarters for these important 
interests of the government. 

Eighteen hundred and eighty's census gave Atlanta 37,409 
population. Other authorities claimed 50,000 to be a fair 
count. The spirit of enterprise had risen high in the civic 
breast, and if the past decade had seen wonderful progress, 
it only stimulated to greater effort, and greater achievement 
was to follow. Atlanta's fame had gone abroad ; her greatness 
had been heralded to the world; should she not offer an op- 
portunity for others to see the evidences of greatness, both of 
herself and her section? Yes, she would do so. Mr. Edward 
Atkinson, a citizen of Boston, Mass., heartily applauding the 
enterprise of the Southern city, suggested a display of the re- 
sources of the section, and upon invitation of a large body of 
Atlanta citizens, he visited the city, delivered an address, and 
outlined a plan upon which prompt action was taken, and the 
International Cotton Exposition was projected, and under the 
guidance of strong representation of citizens, with Mr. H. I. 
Kimball, director-general, and Mr. Atkinson, the faithful ad- 
visor and counsellor, the exposition, which opened October i, 
1 88 1, and closed December 31, 1881, was a most wonderful 
success. People who had heard much and read much came, 
saw and surrendered. Atlanta's resources were shown to jus- 
tify every claim, and the financial good obtained will never be 
estimated. 

To-day a cotton factory, established upon the grounds im- 
mediately after the close of the Exposition, is in full opera- 
tion. 

Six years later elation over past successes had attained so 
high a pitch among Atlanta's citizens that no undertaking 
seemed too great, if grit and enterprise could accomplish it. 
So, in July, 1887, it was determined to hold an exposition of 
the resources of the Piedmont section mainl}^, but everybody 
was invited, and within a period of one hundred and four 
days the enterprise was projected, planned and the gates 
opened. This exposition opened October ist, and lasted ten 
days. 



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This was the occasion of President Grover Cleveland's visit 
to Atlanta. The gate receipts upon "Cleveland Day" aggre- 
gated $200,000 in admissions. 

The beginning of the last decade of the nineteenth century 
ushered in the great building period of Atlanta's history. 
Since 1890, all of the great office buildings, leading hotels, 
with one exception, mammoth stores, splendid viaducts, many 
fine churches, manufacturing plants, school buildings, colleges 
and railroad depots, including the fine terminal station, have 
been constructed. 




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JUNCTION EDGEWOOD AVENUE AND DECATUR STREET 
-, AT PEACHTREE STREET 



ATLANTA UP-TO-DATB II 



The Event of the Decade 

The Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895 
was the most marked event of the decade. The more marked 
because, besides the gigantic proportions contemplated in the 
undertaking, it illustrated, as was never illustrated before, nor 
has been since, the dauntless courage, the unfaltering determi- 
nation and the unconquerable will of this people. 

In the fall of 1894, while yet depression, following the great 
panic of 1893, was so profound that the outside world, at first, 
met the suggestion with grim derision, the indomitable and 
intrepid Gate City announced that, within a year, she would 
open the gates of a "White City" and the world was invited 
to enter, and display the richness of its resources. The gates 
swung open on time, and all nations came. 

The work of preparation began in October, 1894. Congress 
had passed the appropriations bill, and it carried an item of 
$200,000 for a government exhibit at Atlanta, and thus en- 
couraged, subscription-lists were circulated, and the first funds 
available for general expenditures (the government appropri- 
ation being to defray the expense of constructing its own 
building and making its exhibits) amounting to $200,000, 
were pledged. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars's worth 
of labor was expended by the county of Fulton in the nature 
of excavations, building driveways, terraces, etc., and bond 
sales, loans, etc., aggregating $225,000 more made up the 
entire operating capital of the promoters of this gigantic un- 
dertaking. But faith in the success of the enterprise was 
strong. The gates once opened, they believed the balance of 
the funds needed would be forthcoming. And results justi- 
licd the belief. For concessions receipts were $126,000; for 
space and miscellaneous receipts, $79,000, and for gate re- 
ceipts, $380,000. Making a total of $585,000, and a total 
fund of $1,160,000 upon which the exposition was projected, 
and carried through. 'It is estimated," says a competent au- 
thority, "that the total expenditures by the Exposition Com- 
pany, Exhibitors and Concessionaires at this exposition were 
between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000. The financial results 
achieved, with the resources at hand, are remarkable when 
compared with those of other expositions. With a total capi- 
tal of a little over $550,000, Atlanta produced an exposi 
tion the cost of which was $2,500,000. Chicago, with a capi- 



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tal of $10,000,000, produced a fair that cost $27,000,000. At- 
lanta's capital was made to produce a fund five times as great. " 

Exhibits at the exposition came from thirty-seven States 
and thirteen foreign countries. The aggregate covering over 
6,000 entries, besides the United States and South America, 
England, France, Germany, Italy and Austro-Hungary, were 
well represented. Mexico, Venezuela and Chili had collective 
exhibits. Contrary to the usual results, Atlanta experienced 
no depression immediately following the great fair, but there 
followed a steady growth, in building, bank clearings, tonnage, 
postoffice receipts and imports. The following year the build- 
ing permits aggregated $1,800,000. 

A paragraph from Martin's history of the city may with 
propriety be quoted here. It illustrates the progressive spirit 
which ever characterizes Atlanta. 

He says : "Antebellum Atlanta was obliterated at one fell 
swoop by the grim destroyer known, mythologically, as Mars ; 
but the Atlanta that rose, like the fabled phoenix from burned 
ashes, has also been obliterated; more slowly, but none the 
less surely. Not the red hand of war, but the nervous, irrev- 
erent hand of progress, is responsible for the post-bellum van- 
dalism. The business houses of the seventies, dignified and 
solid brick structures, answered well enough the requirements 
of a provincial city of 30,000, but were entirely inadequate to 
the demands of a metropolitan city of 100,000 population." 

And yet, marked as had been the progress of the city from 
1880 until 1897, when the foregoing paragraph was written, 
the succeeding ten years brought about a transformation of 
such grand proportions, and so magnificent in achievement as 
to, almost, justify the same utterances for the period since 

'897- 

With a city of 150,000, a trade covering the entire south- 
east, as a jobbing center, and in many lines covering the 
southwest and entering Mexico, while in others the entire 
country seeks its mart for supplies ; with railroad facilities sur- 
passing those of any other southern city; with a variety of 
manufactures, greater, perhaps, than any other city of equal 
size in the country; with a people fully imbued with the spirit 
that makes a city great, and always loyal to its every interest ; 
with a moral and religious sentiment among its people that 
constantly inspires to great and noble endeavor; with happy 
homes and contentment everywhere, we close the story of At- 
lanta's rise and progress. 

To-morrow the story will be incomplete. 




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The Battle of Atlanta 



From Wallace Putman Reed's History of Atlanta, we take 
the following sketch, giving account of the events leading up 
to, and an account of the Battle of Atlanta, which was the last 
great battle in which the Western army was engaged. Mr. 
Reed says : 

''On the morning of the i8th of July, 1864, Sherman's en- 
tire army advanced, McPherson on the extreme left, Schofield, 
left center. Hooker, right center, and Palmer, extreme right. 
On the 19th, the advance reached Peachtree creek, a stream 
running four miles north of Atlanta, and after considerable 
skirmishing, Howard's troops dislodged the enemy in its front 
and crossed the creek. In the meantime the extreme left wing 
of Sherman's army swung around the Georgia railroad, near 
Decatur, and tore up several miles of railroad. On the eve- 
ning of the 18th, and morning of the 19th, Howard, Hooker 
and Palmer ' crossed, with the remainder of their forces and 
formed a line of battle along the south bank of the creek. At 
3 p .m. of the 20th, a portion of General Hood's army made a 
sudden and desperate attack on Howard, and in great force. 
The attack soon extended to the position of Hooker, the at- 
tacking column advanced three lines deep. 

''A portion of the Federal forces, at first wavered before the 
terrible assault, but quickly rallied, and stood firm as a rock. 
Upon this portion of the line was massed nearly half of Hood's 
army, both parties fighting, for the first time in the campaign, 
in the open field. Before dark the Confederate forces, failing 
to break the Federal lines, were repulsed, and retired in disor- 
der, leaving their dead upon the field. Hooker's whole corps 
fought on open ground and lost about fifteen hundred men. 
He reported four hundred Confederate dead left upon the 
ground, and that the Confederate wounded would number 
four thousand, but this was only conjectured, for most of 
them got back within their own lines. 

During the 21st, there was little, if any, fighting. Both 
armies were watching each other and seeking to gain the ad- 
vantage of position ; both moving toward the south. General 
Hood, during the night of the 21st, withdrew from his Peach- 
tree lines and occupied the fortified lines of Atlanta, facing 
north and east, with Steward's corps and a part of Hardee's 
and Smith's division of militia. General Hood's own corps 



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and the other part of Hardee's marched to the road leading 
from McDonough to Decatur, and turned so as to strike Mc- 
Pherson's left. At the same time this move was made Gen- 
eral Hood sent General Wheeler with his cavalry against Sher- 
man's trains, which were in Decatur, without cavalry protec- 
tions ; as, on the night of the 20th, General Sherman had sent 
Garrard's cavalry to Covington, thirty miles to the east, to 
destroy two railroad bridges, tear up the rail, and do as much 
damage as he could from Stone Mountain eastward. 

"The battle of Atlanta was fought the 226. of July, 1864. 
McPherson's grand division, composed of Logan's and Blair's 
corps, occupied the left of the Federal army. Against this di- 
vision, the Confederates were heavily massed by General 
Hood, and the assault made by them was as desperate as it 
was sudden and unexpected. The fighting" on the part of 
General Hood's men was most terrific. They made charge 
after charge, but, after the first temporary advantage, which 
they gained by the unexpectedness and force of the onset, they 
were compelled to fall back after each charge, notwithstanding 
the earnestness and determination of the soldiers. During the 
battle Major General McPherson, who had gained a position 
on Leggett's Hill, from which he could overlook the city, be- 
came separated from his corps and was killed by sharpshooters. 
General Logan imimediately assumed command of McPher- 
son's corps. General Hood had planned an attack on Sher- 
man's right, at the same time, he made the strong attack with 
his own right, but could not get everything in readiness. 
However, at 4 p.m., he made a determined attack on the Fed- 
eral lines, and with considerable success, breaking through the 
main lines, securing possession of DeGres' battery of four 
20-pound Parrott guns, and turning them upon the enemy. 
Here, however, after some hard fighting by the Federal troops, 
in which General Logan was very active and conspicuous. Gen- 
eral Hood's forces were forced to retire into Atlanta, losing- 
all of the guns captured from DeGres. The Federal forces 
thus gaining possession of the high ground northeast of At- 
lanta, mounted siege guns, so as to command the place. At 
this juncture General Hood's soldiers commenced burning 
their stores, preparatory to evacuation. The principal indi- 
vidual loss in General Hood's army was the killing of General 
Walker, after whom, in whose honor the fort in Grant Park- 
was named." 

'Tt is not easy," says this same writer, ''to find reports from 
Confederate sources as to the losses of General Hood in the 



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battle of Atlanta, but from the report of General Logan to 
General Sherman on the 24th, the following statistics were 
taken : 

"Our Federal loss 3o2i 

"Enemy's dead thus far reported and delivered to them^ 3,220 

"Total prisoners sent North 1,017 

"Total prisoners wounded and in our hands 1,000 

"Estimated loss of enemy at least 10,000'' 




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Atlanta Today : Not Tomorrow 



The beginning of the decade 1890- 1900 ushered in the 
"skyscraper" period. The Equitable Building, on North 
Pryor street and Edgewood avenue, was the first large build- 
ing constructed, and is an eight-story structure, 160x185 feet, 
covering an area of 21,000 square feet. It contains 285 rooms 
and cost above $600,000. It is owned by the Trust Company 
of Georgia, and is the home of that strong and leading financial 
concern. The Eowry National Bank occupies a large and 
prominent section of the first floor space. 

The English-American Building, an eleven-story modern 
structure, occupies a triangle bounded by Peachtree, Broad 
and Poplar streets, and is, on account of its prominent posi- 
tion and architectural beauty, one of the most attractive of 
Atlanta's office-buildings. 

The Prudential, occupying half a block, and bounded by 
Broad, Walton and Forsyth streets, is ten stories above 
ground, and in point of convenience, is one of the most popular 
office-buildings in the city. It was constructed by the late 
William D. Grant. Mr. Grant Wilkins, who built Atlanta's 
system of viaducts, was the contractor. The Neal Bank is in 
this building. 

The Empire, towering fourteen stories, fronting on Broad, 
Marietta and Walton streets, shares with the Prudential the 
advantages of this splendid location. This building is the 
home of the Third National Bank. 

The Fourth National Bank Building occupies another im- 
portant corner at Peachtree and Marietta streets, and is the 
home of the above-named bank. The Penn Mutual Life In- 
surance Company occupies the entire second floor. The build- 
ing is fifteen stories above the street. 

The Candler Building is situated at the intersection of Peach- 
tree, North Pryor and Houston streets, and is seventeen 
stories, with two sub-cellars. This building is situated upon 
the highest point in the business section, and from its topmost 
story one may view almost the entire city. 

The Lowndes Building, almost adjoining the Candler, on 
North Pryor street, is seven stories high. It is popular as a 









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Corner Marietta and North Broad Streets 




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Corner Whitehall and Alabama Streets 




CANDLER BUILDING 
Junction Peachtree and North Pryor Streets 




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musical center, and many of Atlanta's leading vocal and instru- 
mental music schools are in this building. 

The Century Building, at Whitehall and Alabama streets, 
stands twelve stories above ground at the main Whitehall 




THE PRUDENTIAL 

Corner North Broad and Walton Streets 




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street entrance, and has a lower or bisen:ent story opening" on 
Alabama street. This building was erected by the Scott In- 
vestment Company, in 1902. The material is white brick and 
Georgia marble over steel frame work, with Georgia marble 
interior finish. Architecturally, this building presents one of 
the prettiest exteriors in the city ; and, standing at the entrance 
to the great retail district, its splendid proportions and impos- 
ing front add largely to the attractions of the section. 

The Peters Building stands on the Peachtree approach of 
Whitehall and Peachtree viaduct,' and is seven stories above the 
the pavement. It has a Wall street front of one story, making 
it an eight-story structure. It is a splendid steel-framed and 
pressed-brick building, with modern conveniences, and is one 
of the most popular ofhce-buildings in the city. 

The Inman Building, on South Broad street, Temple Court, 
at Alabama and Pryor streets ; the Kiser, at Pryor and Hun- 
ter streets ; the Gould on Decatur street ; the Grant, at Mari- 
etta and Broad streets, constitute the principal additional office- 
buildings. 

This array of splendid buildhigs has, in the aggregate, of- 
fices housing an army of several hundred men and women. 

The City Parks and Pleasure Resorts 

First in line of mention, when sketching the pleasure resorts 
of Atlanta, is Grant Park, a magnificent property of one hun- 
dred acres, donated, in 1882, by the late Mr. L. P. Grant, a' 
pioneer citizen, and wealthy railroad builder of Atlanta. Later 
the city added, by purchase, forty acres. As if by nature de- 
signed, the topography of Grant Park is such as to respond 
most readily to the landscape engineer's efforts, and year by 
year it has developed new beauties and grown more and more 
attractive. 

The Gress Zoo is a leading attraction at the Park, being quite 
an extensive exhibit of animals, birds and fowls. Mr. G. V. 
Gress, a wealthy lumber dealer, purchased the menagerie of 
a stranded circus and presented it to the city, and this formed 
the nucleus of Grant Park's present collection, which is one 
of the best in America. The famous Cyclorama painting, rep- 
resenting the battle of Atlanta (also a present to the city by 
Mr. Gress), which was one of the bloodiest of the war, is an- 
other feature at the Park. Splendid drives, well-shaded walks. 



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40 ATLANTA UP-TO-DATB 

and the air of freedom about this charming spot are not the 
least of its many pleasant and enjoyable features. 

Grant Park is watered by a number of springs, some of 
them mineral, in which cool water bubbles up sparkling and 
refreshing; a small stream skirts the southern boundary and 
a beautiful lake affords ample facilities for boating. A pleas- 
ant spot indeed is the Park, and thousands find recreation and 
enjoyment, when the long trying days of summer make the 
place most a need. During the summer seasons concerts by 
excellent bands are given semi-weekly, and on these occasions 
large crowds throng the Park. Cars marked ''Grant Park" 
are leaving the center of the city every minute. 

Ponce de Leon Springs 

Another exceedingly popular resort is the above property, 
owned by the Georgia Railway & Electric Company. For 
many years Ponce de Leon was only attractive for its waters. 
Two springs coming from beneath the high hills, one of clear, 
cold freestone water, and the other strongly impregnated with 
mineral, first brought the place into note. It was owned by 
a Mr. Armstead, who used to maintain a daily "jug trade" in 
the city, making morning deliveries from wagons. Later pub- 
lic interest were aroused in Ponce de Leon, horse-cars were 
extended to the spot, and it became quite popular. 

Ponce de Leon Park is the great center for amusements and 
sports, being provided with swings, merry-go-rounds, tobog- 
gan slides, ferris wheels, etc., besides one of the finest skating- 
rinks in the country, and theatrical attractions of an inno- 
cent and fun-making character. 

The finest baseball grounds in the South is the latest fea- 
ture of Ponce de Leon, and the Southern League has adopted, 
and now uses, these grounds. The diamond is located upon 
a broad level stretch of land, backed by rising grounds, which 
form a natural amphitheater, thus affording the builder decided 
advantages, in bringing out the full seating capacity, and at 
the same time protecting the view from obstruction at every 
point. 

The transportation facilities to Ponce de Leon are as good 
as they can possibly be made for the accommodation of the 
largest crowds. Cars running on one-half minute schedules 
during summer prevent, to a large extent, congested conditions. 
Regular every-day schedules are run from various sections 



42 ATLANTA UP-TO-DATB 

across town, and one may select a route to> Ponce de Leon 
through almost any part of the north side residence section 
that he may desire to see. 

Piedmonts Park 

Piedmont Park, two and one-half miles north of the center 
of the city, was first improved by the incorporators of the 
Piedmont Exposition Company in 1887, for the exposition of 
that year. In 1894-5 it was greatly enlarged for the Cotton 
States and International Exposition. The company expended 
about $500,000 improving and beautifying the grounds, and 
during the progress of the exposition, gentlemen wh:> had 
visited all the fairs of the past, including the great Paris Ex- 
position, declared these grounds to be the most attractive and 
picturesque they had ever seen. The property covers one 
hundred and eighty-nine acres. Piedmont cars traverse Peach- 
tree street two miles to the broad avenue (Fourteenth street), 
which terminates at the main entrance. Various other lines, 
over splendid North-side residence streets, also run cars to the 
park. 

Piedmont Park is now the property of the city, and large 
expenditures are being made in beautifying the resort. It is 
the present place of holding fairs and expositions that take 
place in Atlanta, but it is contemplated that in the near future 
a change will be made, and that Piedmont's natural scenic 
beauty be enhanced and preserved as a pleasure resort, and a 
new fair-grounds established elsewhere. 

Lakewood to the South 

Lakewood is another attraction which, in addition to the 
splendid boating facilities, is a popular resort for private par- 
ties, and a splendid dancing pavilion adds tO' its attractions. 
It is a pleasant six-mile trolley ride to Lakewood. Nearby is 
the Atlanta Gun Club. 

EasL Lake, in DeKalb 

East Lake is the country home of the Atlanta Athletic Club, 
and has a magnificent club-house, surrounded by broad 
grounds, an enormous lake on which boating and swimming 
are indulged, while the place has the largest and best equip- 
ped golf links in the South. A regular schedule is maintained 
to the club grounds. 



44 ATLANTA UP-TO-DATE 

Collins Park 

On the Chattahoochee, is a favorite resort and popular as 
a picnic ground. It may be reached by the Western & Atlantic 
Railroad and the River electric car-line. Ten-cent fares are 
charged on both lines. 

The White City 

A new resort, so named on account of the liberal use of pure 
white paint and electric lights, is located south of the city and 
in close proximity to Grant Park. It is proving popular, and 
the varied entertainments are attracting many diversion 
seekers. 

Atlanta's Historic Battlefields 

To the visitor, one of the first things, if inclined to see the 
points of interest about the city, is a desire to visit the historic 
battle-fields, where some of the bloodiest conflicts of the Civil 
War took place. 

Although time, and the advance and progress of an enter- 
prising people have obliterated many of the evidences of war, 
there are yet many of the entrenchments and fort mounds to 
be seen, and a few years ago, under the supervision of some 
of the leading survivors of the conflict, the important strategic 
points, locations of various commands of both the Union and 
Confederate forces, headquarters of commanders, etc., were 
located and plainly marked. This historic ground is traversed 
by trolley lines in all directions, making inspection of these 
many points of interest a pleasant task. 

While every trolley line touches at some point the fields of 
conflict, the Decatur and East Lake lines run through the most 
important portion, and from points albng these lines most of 
the marked section may be seen. The spot where General 
McPherson, of the Union forces, fell, is marked by a substan- 
tial monument, which stands within a few rods of the Decatur 
line. 

Fort Walker, another historic spot, where fell Brigadier- 
General W. H. T. Walker, of Georgia, is in the southeast cor- 
ner of Grant Park, and may be reached by any of the lines ex- 
tending to that resort. 

: West of the city are many interesting evidences of the late 
war, and the battle-fields of this section are reached by the 



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Marietta street line to HoweH's, the River line to Bolton, the 
Georgia Northern line to Marietta. Take the Brookwood 
cars to Peachtree Creek battlefield. 

As intimated above, these evidences of bloodshed and car- 
nage are rapidly vanishing before the onward march of en- 
terprise and industry. This is well. The scars of war are 
unsightly — as all scars are unsightly. Soon there will be noth- 
ing left as a reminder of that bloody strife but the monuments 
erected to the memory of the gallant dead, North and South. 
Let these recall the valor of the American soldier, the patriot- 
ism and fidelity to duty of American manhood, rather than 
the strife of contending armies. 

Atlanta's Residential Sedions and Driveways 

Atlanta is justly proud of its record and present commercial 
standing, but its beautiful residences (palaces, almost, some of 
them), and its well-shaded thoroughfares, as well as its charm- 
ing suburban settlements on every side, are the special joy of 
its people. 

Peachtree street, from Ellis to the city limits, is perhaps 
the most beautiful residence street in the South. Splendid 
hori:es iuid attractive and well-kept grounds adorn the street 
all the way, and the tourist who fails to enjoy an auto spin 
over its smooth asphalt, or perhaps better, an afternoon stroll, 
if the weather is fine, misses a pleasant feature of the city's 
many attractions. 

West Peachtree parallels its neighbor from the point of di- 
vergence at Baker street, and is adorned by many splendid 
liomes. Side by side the two Peachtrees run until they again 
co'Me together beyond the city limits, and from thence form 
a broad boulevard, along which are many splendid country 
seats, and leads on to Brookwood and Atlanta Heights. 

Washington street and Capitol avenue are two of Atlanta's 
oldest residence streets, and many stately and substantial 
homes are along these thoroughfares. They skirt the State 
Capitol ground on the east and west sides. 

Atlanta's streets and boulevards, extending for miles 
through beautiful suburbs and into the rural districts beyond, 
afford many miles of splendid driveway. From Hapeville, 
eleven miles to the south, to Atlanta Heights, seven miles north 
of the city, one may drive over eighteen miles (passing 
through the center of the city) of macadam and asphalt, mak- 
ing a roadway as smooth and pleasant as an ocean beach. 



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Another pleasant drive, and through quite as attractive sur- 
roundings, is over the beautiful chert road from the city to 
College Park, nine miles distant. In this aristocratic munici- 
pality is situated Cox College, a noted institution of learning, 
and the Georgia Military Institute for boys. This drive passes 
through West End (seventh ward), the home of Joel Chandler 
Harris (Uncle Remus) and of Frank L. Stanton. Six miles 
out is East point, an independent municipality of extensive 
manufacturing interests. Between West End and East Point 
is Fort McPherson Barracks, one of the finest posts in the 
country. 

Oakland City embraces all of the territory, except the Fort 
reservation, between West End and East Point. This is a 
most desirable residential suburb, having good school facili- 
ties, and the religious sentiment is strong and healthy. Many 
leading citizens of Atlanta business circles reside here. 

Atlanta's Architecflural Appearance 

No city in the Union presents a more fully up-to-date archi- 
tectural appearance than Atlanta. Both in the residential and 
business sections, is this true. If her urgent need in the early 
days of her rehabilitation period compelled her to improvise 
rude structures for business, and build cheap homes, her splen- 
did success and present-day opulence entitles iier to the most 
attractive and substantial that skill and brain can plan, and 
that ample means can supply. The resilience section in all 
parts of the city attests this, as regards the home of the peo- 
ple, in hundreds of instances. 

Constant enlargement and expansion mark the business sec- 
tion, which is rapidly becoming built up in handsome modern 
structures (whole blocks in some instances) which fully sus- 
tain the enterprising and progressive spirit for which Atlanta 
has* so long stood sponsor. 

Atlanta's Churches and Auxiliaries 

Within a few years Atlanta has practically rebuilt its 
churches. New and beautiful edifices have replaced the old 
houses of worship, in most instances ; material improvement 
has been made in some, and, with the building of a number 
additional, Atlanta presents an array of church buildings out- 
classed by few cities. And Atlanta people are noted as church- 
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which, like other residence communities, was made possible by 
the convenient and pleasant arrangements of street railway 
service. 

Ansley Park, in North Atlanta, is the latest addition to the 
immediate suburban communities, and one of the most pic- 
turesque and inviting spots about the city. It is the home of 
many of the wealthy people of Atlanta, and constant addi- 
tions are being made. 

Monuments to Great Georgians 

An object of peculiar interest to visitors, and one which At- 
lanta people hold in highest veneration, is the Grady monu- 
ment, at the intersection of Marietta and Forsyth streets. 

When the death of Mr. Grady occurred in 1889, the hearts 
of the people, after the first great grief had given place to 
sorrowful submission, were turned to the accomplishment of 
a purpose he himself had strongly urged — that of establish- 
ing a hospital for the care and treatment of the sick and poor 
of the city. The hospital bearing his name was the result. 

But a great nation loved Grady. North, East and West 
there were thousands who wanted to pay tribute to his great- 
ness, and his goodness, and when the suggestion was made to 
erect a monument of enduring stone to his memory, and the 
news of the aims of the people was flashed over the wires from 
all sections, there came the ''amens" of his fellow Americans, 
and recjuests to be allowed to contribute to a fund for that 
purpose came from ever)^ quarter. 

The beautiful monument, represented by cut in this book is,. 
therefore, the tribute paid to the great Southerner by a re- 
united nation rather than by a section of country, and noted 
men of all sections have stood at its base and, looking upon 
the heroic statue surmounting it, lauded his transcendent worth 
and expressed their great love for him. 

Statue of Benjamin Harvey Hill 

In the broad rotunda of the Capitol building stands the 
statue of Benjamin Harvey Hill, one of Georgia's greatest 
men, than whom no man ever held more securely the con- 
fidence and love of Georgians. 

The monument, which is a beautiful Italian marble statue 
of heroic size, is the tribute of the people to the memory of 
Mr. Hill. When the movement to erect a monument was pro- 




THE BENJAMIN HARVEY HILL STATUE 
Rotunda of State Capitol 




THE HENRY W. GRADY MONUMENT 
Opposite Postojffice 



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posed, it was suggested that all of the people bear the expense, 
rather than a few, and that small sums from the many be ac- 
cepted rather than large amounts. The monument is there- 
fore a people's tribute. 

The unveiling of the Hill monument, which took place 
May I, 1886, was a momentous occasion. Jefferson Davis, 
ex-President of the Confederacy, accompanied by his daugh- 
ter, Miss Winnie Davis, was present and paid a feeling tribute 
to the dead, whom he characterized as "Hill the Faithful." 

The Erskine Fountain 

At the junction of West Peachtree and Peachtree streets 
there stands a beautiful and ever-flowing fount set in semi- 
circular enclosure of fine marble, erected to the memory of 
John Erskine, a distinguished Georgian, and former circuit 
judge of the United States Court. This miemorial fountain is 
one of the attractions of the north side, and is an object of 
much admiration, on account of its uniqueness of design, and 
excellence of construction. 

Equestrian Statue of Gordon 

The equestrian statue of John B. Gordon, the warrior-states- 
man, who, in time of war, was one of the South most gallant 
generals, and who, in time of peace, distinguished himself 
as United States Senator, Governor, and in his great work as 
an evangel of peace and fraternal feeling between the North 
and the South, stands upon the northwest front of the grounds 
of the State Capitol. 

This is one of the most beautiful and expensive individual 
monuments in the South, costing $25,000, and was erected 
upon subscriptions secured by the Confederate veterans. United 
Daughters of the Confederacy and other patriotic organiza- 
tions to the amount of $10,000, added to which was an ap- 
propriation of $15,000 by an act of the Georgia Legislature, 
which act also created a commission, composed of promi- 
nent Georgians from the various sections of the State, to 
which act also created a commission, composed of promi- 
monument. 

The unveiling, which took place May 25, 1907, was the oc- 
casion of one of, the most notable demonstrations ever wit- 
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Georgia's Capitol Building 

Standing upon an eminence near the center of the city, and 
occupying an entire block, bounded by Washington and East 
Hunter streets, Capitol avenue and Capitol Square, Georgia's 
Capitol building is, easily, the most attractive building 
in the city. 

The cut of the building, which occupies a space in this book, 
gives an intelligent idea of its architecture and mammoth pro- 
portions. The material is of oolitic limestone, with Georgia 
marble interior. It was built by the State at a cost of $1,000,- 
000, which was the original appropriation made by the act of 
the Legislature authorizing its construction; and the claim is 
made that it is the only instance on record where so large an 
appropriation for a building exactly met the demands and with- 
out the covering back into the treasury of a single dollar. Geor- 
gia's Capitol was constructed for just what it was designed to 
cost. Honorable Henry D. McDaniel, of Walton county, was 
Governor, and chairman of the commission having charge of 
the work, and the disbursement of the funds. 

A feature of especial interest to visitors at the Capitol is the 
collection of oil paintings of famous Georgians, who have 
figured in the affairs of State from the time of Oglethorpe 
to the present day. These paintings are arranged along the 
walls of the broad rotunda, and lend an impressive and solemn 
dignity to the surroundings. 

The statue of Benjamin Harvey Hill stands at the first floor 
landing in the rotunda, and the equestrian statue of John B. 
Gordon graces the capitol grounds. These monuments receive 
more extended notice elsewhere. 

The Carnegie Library 

The Carnegie Library of Atlanta was organized May 6, 
1899. The organization of this library united literary in- 
terests in the city and consolidated the property of the Young 
Men's Library Association, the $100,000 gift of Mr. Andrew 
Carnegie, and the annual appropriation of $5,000 from the 
city of Atlanta to support a free public library. In December, 
1899, Mr. Carnegie added $25,000 to his original gift^ and 
subsequently in March, 1901, he gave $20,000 more. 

The Young Men's Library Association, which was organ- 
ized in 1867, had struggled to maintain a public library for the 



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city. Without endowment and without municipal aid the 
association was crippled in its endeavors; yet, by the individ- 
ual efforts of its directors and members, property to the 
amount of about $75,000 had been accumulated. Realizing 
that the day of the subscription library was over, and desiring 
to make the library absolutely free, the directors, through Mr. 
Walter M. Kelly, succeeded in interesting Mr. Carnegie, and 
he offered to give the city $100,000 to build a new library if 
the city would" furnish a site and guarantee $5,000 a year for 
its support. 

By the terms of the consolidation the Young Men's Library 
Association agreed to furnish the site for the new library, a 
centrally located lot on the corner of Forsyth and Church 
street, since changed to Carnegie Place, being purchased 
at a cost of $35,000. In addition, the old association donated 
its stock of books, pamphlets, pictures, etc., to the new insti- 
tution. 

The building is of the conventional Ionic order with classic 
ornamentation, and similar in style to the Public Library of 
the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C. The general 
effect is simple and pleasing. The material is white Georgia 
marble. The total cost of the building, including architects' 
fees, stacks, and furniture, was $145,000. 

The State Library 

The State Library, occupying one of the handsomest public 
halls in the State Capitol, is considered the best law library in 
the Southern States. It contains over 65,000 volumes, of 
which about half are law books, and about half miscellaneous 
works and government and State documents. The law library 
includes the Supreme Court reports of every State in the 
Union, with the Federal reports and the English and Irish 
reports, besides all the standard text-books and digests, and 
the statutes of the different States. 

There are comparatively few books in the line of general 
literature, but there are some historical works of great value, 
including the De Renne collection of works on Georgia and 
the Southeastern States, written in colonial times. The pur- 
chases of law books are under the supervision of the Supreme 
Court, and the law library is kept supplied with the latest edi- 
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The Georgia School of Technology 

This important branch of the University of Georgia was 
authorized in 1885 by a State appropriation of $65,000, sup- 
plemented by a gift of $50,000 by the city of Atlanta; and, 
in addition to a liberal annual appropriation by the Legislature, 
the city appropriates $2,500 annually toward its support. The 
act establishing the school provides that "There shall be estab- 
lished in connection with the State University, and forming 
one of the departments thereof, a Technological school, for the 
education and training of students in the mechanical and in- 
dustrial arts. That there shall be one beneficiary for each 
representative in the General Assembly, to be selected by the 
Board of Education in each county on competitive examina- 
tion, and who shall be first entitled to the benefits of the school ; 
that the tuition of said school shall be free to all students who 
are residents of Georgia." 

The buildings are an academic building of brick, 130x120 
feet, four stories high above basement, which contains ample 
accommodations in halls, offices, apparatus rooms, recitation 
and lecture halls, library and chapel ; and a workshop, also 
of brick, 250x80 feet, two stories high above basement, which 
is equipped with machinery and tools from the best makers 
and the latest patterns. The mechanical department has been 
put on a footing with the most approved and complete shops 
in the country, and hardly any process requiring fine materia] 
and accurate workmanship is beyond its capacity. 

The chemical and physical laboratories have been fitted up 
with reference to practical work, and the appliances are of the 
newest and best, and such additions will be made from time 
to time as may be required for experimental research. The 
school affords an education of high grade, founded on 
mathematics, the English language, and physical sciences and 
drawing, while it gives familiarity with such industrial pur- 
suits as will enable the graduate to earn a living. 

The school was organized in 1888, with a faculty of nine 
professors in the academic department and four instructors 
in the mechanical department. 

Since its establishmient the Legislature has made many im- 
provements. A dormitory has been added, costing $15,000, 
and a textile department, fully equipped and thorough in its 
training has been added. 



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Institutions for the Education of the Negro 

Atlanta has six institutions for higher negro education 
elaborately equipped and liberally endowed. These are the 
Atlanta University, Spelman Seminary, Clarke University, 
Gammon Theological Seminary, Morris Brovv^n College, and 
the Atlanta Baptist College. In equipment, these institutions 
are fully equal, if not superior, to the University of Georgia, 
and the other colleges for the education of the whites. It is 
important to know that in two of these institutions the prac- 
tical side of education receives much attention. At Clarke 
University and at Spelman Seminary negro men are taught 
various trades and negro women are trained, not only in all 
kinds of domestic economy, but as nurses for hospitals, etc. 

Grady Memorial Hospital 

One of Atlanta's crowning charities is Grady Memorial 
Hospital, erected by popular subscription soon after the death 
of Henry W. Grady, and dedicated to his memory, it being 
recognized that no more fitting tribute of respect could be paid 
the great Georgian by his home city than the organization and 
perpetuation of a splendid charity, a work so in unison with 
his life-work and the impulses of his generous heart. 

Grady Memorial Hospital was completed in 1892, and ten- 
dered to the city, and by it accepted upon conditions of per- 
petual maintenance as a charitable institution. It is construct- 
ed with a view to the accommodation of both white and 
colored patients, with children's and maternity wards separate, 
besides provisions for the isolation of patients requiring it. 

Trustees, consisting of one citizen from each ward, and three 
from the city at large, selected by council, have general over- 
sight of the management of the hospital and a board of 
physicians selected by the trustees direct the medical affairs 
of the institution. The staff consists of a superintendent and 
four staff physicians. The latter are appointed upon competi- 
tive examination, and the term of service is two years. An 
appointment to service upon Grady Hospital staff of house 
physicians is a much-coveted distinction, and the young doc- 
tor who wins preferment must be exceedingly bright and highly 
qualified. Under the direction of a head nurse and matron 
the hospital employs four graduate and twenty-one pupil nurses. 

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Butler street, and has as its immediate neighbors the Atlanta 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Southern Dental 
College. 

Like all charitable institutions, the Grady Memorial Hospital 
receives a limited number of pay patients, the provisions be- 
ing in the proportion of one pay patient to ten charity patients. 
The high character of service, and the excellent equipment of 
the hospital create demands upon the full capacity of its pay 
departments all the time. 

Other Hospitals and Infirmaries 

Besides the Grady Memorial Hospital, there are three de- 
nominational institutions where charity patients are received 
for care and treatment. The oldest of these is the Presbyte- 
rian Hospital, which is at 17 West Cain street. The building 
was constructed especially for hospital purposes, and formerly 
occupied by the Holmes Sanitarium. The hospital is, as its 
name indicates, under the management of the Presbyterian 
Church, and is a well-equipped and well-managed institution. 
The rates to pay patients are liberal, and its staff of physicians 
are from among the best medical men in Atlanta. 

The Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary, founded by Dr. Len G. 
Broughton, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle Church, comes 
next in order of establishment, and is one of the best managed 
hospitals in the country. The infirmary maintains fair rates 
to pay patients, and is liberally supported. No sufferer, how- 
ever poor, is turned away, if relief can be afforded by the 
Tabernacle Infirmary. 

The Wesley Memorial Hospital is a Methodist institution, 
established to commemorate the bi-centennial of the birth of 
John Wesley. This hospital is situated upon a beautiful lot 
(one-fourth of a block), at the corner of Courtland and Au- 
burn avenues, the already large and commodious building hav- 
ing recently been enlarged by the erection of a nurse's dormi- 
tory and other essentials. This is a charitable institution, de- 
pending upon the church and revenues derived from pay pa- 
tients. 

St. Joseph's Infirmary is a Roman Catholic institution, sit- 
uated at 294 Courtland avenue, and is the oldest hospital in 
the city. The buildings are ample and well-arranged for hos- 
pital purposes, and it is very popular with the people. 

The foregoing does not constitute all of the hospital accom- 
modations of Atlanta. There are several sanitariums operated 
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every particular with tlie best cf like institutions in the country. 
Among the most prominent of the foregoing" are the Noble 
Sanitarium, 131 South Pryor street; Howel Park Sanitarium, 
in West End ; the Pasteur Institute, 85 Luckie street ; National 
Surgical Institute, 70 South Pryor street ; Elkin-Golclsmith 

Sanitarium, 27 and 29 Luckie street; Dr. U. O. Robertson, 

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The Keely Institute, at 299 Woodward avenue, and the 
Victor Sanitarium, 321 Whitehall street, are for the treatment 
and cure of inebriety and drug-taking. 

Clubs and Club Homes 

The Capital City Club, the chief social organization in the 
city, was organized in 1883. Its membership is large, and is 
drawn from the leading financial and business element 
of the city, as well as a long list of professional men. 
It also has many non-resident members in various sections of 
the country. The club maintains elegant and commodious 
quarters at the corner of Peachtree and Ellis streets, where 
have been entertained, from time to time, many of the most 
distinguished men of the nation, among whom were Grover 
Cleveland, William McKinley, W. J. Bryan, and Theodore 
Roosevelt. 

The Piedmont Driving Club is a decidedly aristocratic or- 
ganization, maintaining elegant quarters adjoining Piedmont 
Park. The social functions of the club are always the most 
elegant and elaborate. 

The Atlanta Athletic Club is a flourishing and exceedingly 
popular association of young men of the city. It owns an 
elegant home at 37 Auburn avenue, which was constructed 
upon plans especially designed for club purposes. 

Atlanta is State headquarters for the State Federation of 
Woman's Clubs. A large section on the fifth floor of the 
Grand building is the home of this, as well as the local organi- 
zation. 

The Transportation Club is an organization of railroad 
passenger and freight traffic men, with club rooms on the 
eighth floor of the Equitable building. 

The Atlanta Turn-Verein and the Frund-Schaftsbund Ben- 
evolent Societies, are German organizations on North Forsyth 
street. 

The Atlanta Gun Club has shooting grounds at Lakewood 
and a strong membership of lovers of the sport. 

The Emmet Club, Atlanta Kennel Club, Canadian Society, 
Gate City Guard Club, Georgia Club, Northern Society, and 
the Saturday Night Club, are all active promoters of society 
in Atlanta. 



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Atlanta's Splendid Hotels 

Some of the most expensive and imposing structures in At- 
lanta are found among the hotels of the city. 

The Kimball House, Atlanta's oldest and far-famed hotel, 
standing in the geographical center of the city, has just been 
remodeled and reconstructed and made thoroughly up-to-date 
in every feature. 

The Aragon, at Peachtree and Ellis streets, enjoys the dis- 
tinction of standing in the threshold of the fashionable quar- 
ter, and is a fine exponent of the architect's skill, among the 
m'any splendid types in that community. The Aragon's pa- 
tronage comes to it from the highest class of the traveling 
public. 

The Piedmont, on Peachtree, at Broad and Luckie, is one 
of the great Southern hotels, and since its completion has 
drawn a large and select patronage. The Piedmont is the 
largest hotel in the city. 

The Marion, on North Forsyth street, is exceedingly popu- 
lar with the public. The best evidence of this is the constant 
broadening of its scope. The latest innovation is the establish- 
ment of a finely appointed cafe on Mitchell street, near the 
Terminal Station. 

The Majestic is the leading family hotel of the city. It is 
on Peachtree, near neighbor of the Aragon. The Majestic is 
the home of many of the leaders of Atlanta's business and 
social realms. 

The Terminal Hotel stands opposite the Terminal Station, 
on Mitchell street, corner Madison, and is, therefore a con- 
venient and popular stopping place for a large portion of the 
traveling public. 

Secret Orders of the City 

The spirit of brotherhood and fraternal good will is over- 
flowing in Atlanta, all the time, and its fraternal organizations 
exert a most salutary influence upon social conditions. 

Seven lodges of Master Masons flourish in the city; two 
of Royal Arch, two of Knights Templar, three of A. and A. 
Scottish Rite, and one lodge of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 

The temple is situated at Forsyth and Mitchell streets. The 
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there is an open lodge every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 
evening in each month, except fifth v^eek days. 

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is strong in Atlanta. 
There are fourteen lodges, encampments and cantons, with 
lodge rooms in various sections of the city. 

The Red Men is, numerically, perhaps the strongest secret 
order in the city. Eight tribes, aggregating a membership of 
4,000 and three Councils of the Degree of Pocahontas con- 
stitute the strength of this popular order. The headquarters 
of the Red Men are at 86 Central avenue. 

The Knights of Pythias have seven lodges, four Councils 
of the Endowment Rank, and one lodge of Uniform Rank. 
This order maintains rooms and headquarters in the Kiser 
building, corner South Pryor and Hunter streets. 

The Knights of Honor, two lodges ; the Maccabees, Junior 
Order of A. M., Woodmen of the World, Royal Arcanum, 
National Union, Knights of Columbia, Catholic Knights of 
America, Free Sons of Israel, and Independent Order of B'nai 
B'rith, Lodge of Eagles, and an exceptionally strong and large 
lodge of Elks, are all in prosperous working order in Atlanta. 

Fort McPherson 

Fort McPherson is one of the best equipped military posts 
in the United States. It was constructed at great expense on 
a reservation of forty acres, occupying a commanding emi- 
nence four miles from the center of the city, and easily acces- 
sible by the trains of the Central and Atlanta & West Point 
railways and electric cars. The post has barracks for the ac- 
commodation of one thousand enlisted men and non-commis- 
sioned officers, with handsome residences for the staff and 
company officers, besides post headquarters. There is a store- 
house and a well-equipped hospital. An elaborate system of 
waterworks and sewerage brings the sanitary conditions up 
to the standard for well-regulated communities. The water 
supply is abundant and pure, and the rolling character of the 
ground is such as to make drainage perfect. The parade 
ground is one of the finest in the United States, and the 
regimental drills and dress parades are frequently attended 
on pleasant afternoons by the elite of the city. 



88 ATLANTA UP-TO-DATE 

Labor and Its Relation to Public Affairs 

No city, perhaps in the world, is so nearly free from labor 
disturbances as Atlanta. We have labor organizations. All 
of the leading trades have their unions, and these are feder- 
ated, but there are no disruptors nor agitators in Atlanta. 
Labor organization is run upon business principles, like other 
important interests ; indeed the leaders among labor are, many 
of them, occupying important stations in the city government, 
and upon the various administration boards. They are men 
of brains and their influence is felt in all parts of public policy. 
Altogether it is doubltless true that conditions, as they exist 
in this city, are as near ideal as can be found in any city. 

BenevoIenL and Charitable Institutions 

A strong illustration of the benevolent spirit which abounds 
in Atlanta is found in the number of homes and other means 
of relief provicied by its people. 

The Florence Crittenden Home, at 827 Simpson street, is 
one of the many houses of like character of which millionaire 
Evangelist Crittenden is founder. In this work, which is the 
rescue of fallen women, the people take a lively interest and 
ably support every effort put forth. 

The Home for Old Women, established by the King's 
Daughters, takes care of the old and decrepit women who, 
having no other refuge, are gladly taken in and comfortably 
supported and their every need is supplied, upon the bounty 
of the circle and its friends. The home is situated at 19 East 
Mitchell street, in temporary quarters, pending the establish^ 
ing of a permanent home, preparations now being under way 
for the accomplishment of that object. 

The Home of the Friendless, established and maintained for 
the reception and care of the homeless and destitute, is an in- 
stitution of worth as a haven of refuge. Almost daily the 
police court judge is called upon to provide immediate relief 
for some one, often a child, and sometimes a deserted infant 
and in this home is always found a ready welcome for his 
charges. 

The Home for Incurables is another great charity which is 
maintained by the public at 220 South Boulevard, and is the 
source of much relief to suffering humanity. 

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charities, as well as charitable institutions, by annual appro- 
priation and every investment of this kind proves one of 
profit to the public. This home is one of the most deserving 
of the city's many worthy institutions. 

For Orphan Children 

Children are the especial care of 'the people. Within the 
city limits and the immediate vicinity there are seven homes 
for white children and two for negro children. 

Inside the city, the largest and most extensive of these in- 
stitutions is the Hebrew Orphans' Home, at 479 Washington 
street. It is a commodious and highly ornamental structure, 
with spacious grounds and bears a distinct air of comfort, con- 
venience and elegance. It is strictly a home for Hebrew or- 
phans and is supported by the Hebrews of the city. 

The Decatur Orphans' Home, located at Decatur, six miles 
out, is a Methodist institution and is supported by the North 
and South Georgia Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South. 

At Hapeville, eleven miles out, is a similar denominational 
institution established and supported by the Baptist Church. 

Besides the above main charities, there are four others in 
the city that care for orphans, which are supported by the con- 
tributions of the public. Two colored orphanages care for 
many little orphans of the negro race. 

Atlanta Has Three GreaL Papers 

No city in the Union more fully illustrates the power of the 
press than Atlanta does in the three great dailies published in 
the city. 

The Constitution is the oldest daily and is published morn- 
ings. It has stood at the head of Southern journalism for 
forty years and its influence bears strongly upon national 
affairs of every phase. 

The Journal, established over thirty years ago, prints noon, 
afternoon and Sunday editions. This paper has perhaps the 
largest circulation of any paper in the city and, in equipment 
and news service, is not surpassed by any Southern daily. 

The Georgian and Nezvs is the latest established daily, and 
is published week-day afternoons. It is, and has been from 
its first issue, a leading factor in journalism. Ably edited, 
amply equipped and financially strong, The Georgian and 
News is unquestionably one of the most promising dailies Jn 
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Commercial Organizations 

The Atlanta Merchants and Manufacturers Association has 
headquarters at 6i East Alabama street, and is maintained for 
the discussion of topics of interest to the organization and to 
make common cause of the welfare of the individual concern. 
It covers a wide field and is one of Atlanta's potent factors in 
business. 

The Atlanta Freight Bureau was organized for the purpose 
of guarding the shipping interests of the city against discrim- 
ination and extortion, and the bureau has proved a most ex- 
cellent and wise move. Its ofhces are in the City Hall build- 
ing. 

The Atlanta Fruit and Produce Exchange serves well the 
interests of both the shipper and the dealer, by the regulation 
of shipments, preventing over-supply, and consequent loss. 
Offices, 55 Inman building. 

The Atlanta Grain Merchants Association holds regular 
meetings in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, in which the 
interests of this line of trade are discussed and cared for. 

The Wholesale Grocers Association meets in the Chamber 
of Commerce. 

The Retail Grocers Association meets at 1428 Empire 
building. 

The Georgia division of the Southern Cotton Association 
has headquarters at 919 Empire building. 

The Associated Charities 

The Associated Charities of Atlanta was organized in 1905 
and has a large membership, approximating 1,000, which pays 
annual dues for the support of the work. The affairs of the 
association are administered by a general secretary, with rooms 
in the Gould building. The Associated Charities is rather to 
be considered an institution to prevent instead of encourage 
pauperism. Instead of the dispensing of charity in a promis- 
cuous way, its work is directed toward helping others to help 
themselves. Aid and not indiscriminate giving is the aim. 

The work is carried on systematically and upon strictly 
business principles and remarkable results have followed. 



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Rescue Work of Women 

The traveler arriving in Atlanta over any of the lines of 
road will observe at the new Terminal Station two quiet, but 
active ladies who, provided with desks and other office com- 
forts, spend their time at the station, engaged in the work of 
looking after lonely and distressed women, girls and children 
who may fall under misfortune and stand in need of immedi- 
ate attention and relief. 

At the old depot there is one such person, assigned to the 
same kind of work, and this splendid benevolence is supported 
by a band of Atlanta women, known as the Atlanta Woman's 
Missionary Society, and almost daily some good work is 
recorded; some young girl is rescued from peril, some child 
is taken up and cared for as the case demands or whatever 
the need; the huma^ derelict always finds, in the Mission's 
representative, a friend to help out of trouble. 

Medical and Dental Colleges 

Great strides have been taken in the matter of medical in- 
struction in Atlanta during late years and there are now three 
splendid structures, finely equipped, and all prosperous and 
popular. 

The Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons (allo- 
pathic), is Atlanta's oldest medical school. It is just opposite 
Grady Hospital and is a modern structure both in architectural 
design and appointment. 

The Georgia College of Electic Medicine and Surgery is 
located on Edgewood avenue. It is one of the most progres- 
sive and enterprising colleges maintained by this school of 
medicine. 

The Atlanta School of Medicine (allopathic), corner Luckie 
and Bartow streets, is the latest addition to medical instruction 
in Atlanta. It has one of the finest college buildings in the 
South, wath the best of equipment, and its first year in the 
new quarters was a most satisfactory one. 

Two dental colleges, a college of pharmacy and the Medical 
Missionary Traininsf School, are other institutions which are 
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The United States Penitentiary 

Four miles south of Atlanta is the United States Peniten- 
tiary, where are incarcerated convicts from the United States 
courts of the several States of the section, as well as many 
from far-away points who for various reasons are sent here 
for service. 

The prison is modern in every particular and its surround- 
ings are such as to render perfect sanitation easy, and the 
health of the inmates of the Federal prison at Atlanta is good. 
Visitors are received on Monday and Thursday of each week. 
Take cars at Peachtree and Marietta marked ''Federal Pris- 
on," 

The Terminal Stations 

Atlanta has the finest passenger station in the Southern 
States, which serves the Southern, the Central of Georgia, and 
the Atlanta and West Point systems, and seventy-four regular 
passenger trains arrive and depart daily from this station. 

The Terminal Station is situated at Mitchell street, adjoin- 
ing the Viaduct, with front entrance and spacious grounds 
facing Madison avenue, and was erected at a cost of approxi- 
mately $750,000. 

The Union Passenger Station, the geographical hub of the 
city, recently renovated and made over, serves the Western 
& Atlantic (over which line the trains of the Louisville & 
Nashville also enter), the Seaboard, and the Georgia rail- 
roads. 

The StreeL Railway System 

Atlanta has one of the finest systems of electric railways in 
the country, penetrating every section of the city so thoroughly 
that almost every door is in close proximity to its lines. This 
convenience, with a five-cent fare and transfers to cross lines, 
affords economical and rapid transit to all, and in easy reach 
of all classes. And, in consideration of these advantages, At- 
lanta's patronage of her street-cars is immense. 

Suburban lines of the same syste""! extend to Marietta, twenty 
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McPherson, four and one-half miles ; Oakland City, Decatur, 
six miles ; Kirkwood, five miles, and Edgewood suburb, three 
miles. All of these lines enjoy a splendid patronage, while 
they afford great convenience to a very large percentage of 




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business men and women of the city, who make their homes 
m these neighboring towns. 

Another feature of the trolley system of Atlanta which ren- 
ders travel on its lines simple and easy, is the fact that from 
a smgle block m the almost exact center of the city practically 
all of Its lines radiate, and all but four of them from a sinHe 
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Atlanta Has Fine Theatrical Attractions 

Atlanta has many and varied theatrical attractions ; prin- 
cipal among the high-class theatres are the DeGive opera 
houses, The Grand on Peachtree, and the Bijou at Marietta 
and Forsyth. The Grand is one of the most modern play- 
houses in the country. It fronts seven stories on Peachtree 




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Street, and is a combination structure, the front section con- 
stituting a business and office-building and the rear an audi- 
torium. 

The Bijou, the oldest playhouse in the city, is a popular- 
price theater, booking only high-class attractions. This the- 
ater is regarded as one of the finest in acoustic appointment 
in the country. 

The Eldorado, out Marietta street, and the Star, on Decatur 
street, are smaller theaters that run full seasons. 

At Ponce de Leon Springs the Casino, under the same man- 
agement that the Springs are under, is a popular summer 
theater. 

Atlanta's Public Schools 

For many years Atlanta has been recognized as a center for 
education in the Southern States. The public-school system 
is unsurpassed. Here the young receive thorough and careful 
training. So perfected has become the course of study in the 
public schools that hundreds of Atlanta's best citizens prefer 
them to any private training. There are public grammar 
schools in all the various wards, a boys' high school, a boys' 
night school, and a girls' high school. Atlanta's colleges, 
institutes, universities and seminaries are abreast with the best 
educational institutions in the United States. 

There are, in addition to the above, many splendid private 
schools and excellent kindergartens in the city. About 15,000 
pupils are enrolled in the public schools and 6,000 attend insti- 
tutions of higher education. 

The Soldiers' Home 

Three miles southeast of the city there stands, in the midst 
of a large body of land, the home paid for by an association 
of Georgians and presented to the State of Georgia, upon con- 
ditions of perpetual maintenance, where the aged, infirm and 
disabled Confederate Veterans who apply for admission, are 
taken in and cared for and supported in comfort so long as 
they may desire to remain. 

The management is under the supervision of a board of 
trustees, who look after every interest of the institution and 
render regular reports of their stewardship to the State. These 
men serve without pav, and devote valuable time and much 
work to the Home's interests, actuated only by a patriotic 
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direct control of affairs, living on the place, and receiving a 
fair salary for his services. 

The Soldiers' Home is at the end of the line, and cars mark- 
ed "Soldiers' Home" leave Decatur and Peachtree corner 
every thirty minutes. Visitors will find a trip to this point 
pleasant and very interesting. 

Monuments to the Confederate Dead 

Three beautiful and expensive monuments to the Confed- 
erate dead stand in Atlanta. One at Oakland, the first erected, 
stands at the entrance of the Confederate dead section, and is 
a plain but highly finished marble shaft with appropriate in- 
scriptions. 

This shaft was erected by the Ladies' Memorial Associa- 
tion and at its base is held the exercises conducted by the as- 
sociation every 26th of April, when the graves of the sleeping 
soldiers are decorated. 

Erected to Dead Comrades 

Another monument stands in West View Cemetery, erected 
by the United Confederate Veterans, in memory of their dead 
comrades, which is even more suggestive of war heroes than its 
neighbor in Oakland. 

This monument consists of a die, supported by massive base 
and plinth and surmounted by the heroic figure of an armed 
and equipped Confederate soldier. 

The Lion of Lucerne 

The ^'Unknown Confederate Dead" is held in remembrance 
by a crouching lion of marble mounted upon a massive stone 
base and prominently placed in Oakland. It was placed by the 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, and is a reproduction of 
the famous "Lion of Lucerne" which commemorates the valor 
of the Swiss soldiers who fought against such fearful odds in 
the wars of that heroic and patriotic people. 

Association of Veterans 

Atlanta has five camps of Confederate veterans. 

Atlanta Camp (159) meets monthly at the State Capitol, 
third Monday nights. 

Camp W. H. T. Walker (925) meets at 102 South Forsyth 
street, second Monday nights. 




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Camp Stonewall Jackson (1591) meets at 14 East Hunter 
street, first Mondays. 

Camp ''Tige" Anderson (1455) meets at 43 1-2 Decatur 
street, first Tuesdays. 

Camp A, Wheeler's Cavalry, meets at City Hall first and 
third Fridays. 

The Sons of the Confederate Veterans meet at 709 Pruaen 
tial building. 

Atlanta is Southern Headquarters of the G. A. R. for Geor- 
gia and South Carolina. The local Post, O. M. Mitchell No. 
I, meets in the Kiser building. 

The Veterans of the Cuban War have a hall in the Browm 
Randolph building. 

System of Bridges and Viadu<fls 

Abreast with the spirit of progress in industrial and financial 
lines, has been every other feature of the city's advancement. 

Notably is this true in the large expenditures of money in 
providing viaducts and bridges of expensive and midern con- 
struction at all railroad crossings. The most notable of these 
are the Whitehall-Peachtree viaduct, the Broad street bridge, 
the Forsyth street viaduct, the Mitchell street viaduct, Nelson 
street bridge, and the Peters street viaduct. Besides these, 
there are a number of reinforced concrete bridges that span 
dangerous crossings in various parts of the city. 

In addition to the safety afforded in crossing the railroads, 
these viaducts have practically obliterated the line that divided 
the North and South sides, and have rendered the city one com- 
pact whole. They have made possible those splendid drives 
of which mention is made in this work. In this connection, 
we mention the Washington street viaduct, now nearing com- 
pletion, which overtops a section of Decatur street district, and 
afifords a connecting line between the North and South sides, 
through splendid residence sections. 

Greater Railroad Freight Terminals 

In anticipation of the immense growth of business, the rail- 
road companies are spending millions of dollars to enlarge 
their terminal facilities in and around Atlanta. Large exten- 
sions of freight terminals are being made by the Southern and 
Louisville & Nashville Railroads. The Atlanta, Birmingham 
& Atlantic is constructing extensive terminals, and will soon 
enter the city. The Louisville & Nashville's freight terminal 



118 ATLANTA UP-TO-DATB 

station, now nearing completion, is the largest concrete struc- 
ture in the world. The improvement of the L. & N. system 
alone will aggregate an outlay of $1,000,000. 

Official Headquarters of Atlanta 

The official headquarters of Atlanta are at the corner of 
South Pryor and East Hunter streets. It is four stories above 
ground. On the first floor are grouped all of the offices with 
which the general public has dealings. The city clerk, tax- 
assessors, tax-collector, marshal, license inspector and water 
rent collectors are on this floor. On the second floor and third 
floors are the general offices of departments — the city engineer, 
building inspector, etc. The fourth contains the Mayor's suite 
and the General Council chamber. 

The building is provided with elevator service and all mod- 
ern conveniences. 

The County Court-House 

Is really three buildings erected at intervals to accommo- 
date the growth of county interests, and these are already so 
entirely inadequate to demands as to necessitate the construc- 
tion of a new and modern building for court-house purposes. 
The commissioners are now perfecting arrangements which 
authorize the mention made of the matter, under the head 
'^Atlanta of To-morrow," elsewhere in this book. 

The Governor's Mansion 

Georgia's chief executive lives in a mansion on the corner 
of Peachtree and Cain streets, which is a splendid brick struc- 
ture with ample surroundings, and which cost the State over 
$100,000 thirty years ago. 

The Atlanta Fire DepartmenL 

The Atlanta Fire Department consists of 149 men, organ- 
ized into fourteen companies. These companies are domiciled 
in ten houses, or stations, and are equipped with the follow- 
ing apparatus, viz. : Three trucks, two chemical engines, 
«even steamers and ten hose wagons, a total of twenty-two 
pieces. 

No. I Station, 44-46 West Alabama street, is headquarters 



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TERMINAL HOTEL 

Opposite Terminal Station 



-of the department. The officers of the department are as fol- 
lows : The chief, three assistants to the chief, thirteen cap- 
tains, thirteen lieutenants. 

The department covers not only the city proper within 
the municipal limits, but all outskirts, or suburbs, where fires 
can be reached with water. 

The Gamewell fire alarm system is used. There are 103 
^fire alarm boxes in the Atlanta system. 

The waterworks, owned and operated by the city, supply 





POLICE STATION 
Decatur Street 



122 ATLANTA UP-TO-DATB 

amply for fire services. The domestic pressure is sixty pounds 
— the fire pressure ninety pounds. The fire hydrants number 
1, 800. J ; i i 

Atlanta a Well Policed City 

Like the fire department, Atlanta has one of the best organ- 
ized police forces in the country, consisting of a chief, three 
captains, six sergeants, two roundsmen and 180 patrolmen. 

The department is under civil service rules, and the chief 
is in absolute control in regard to all matters of detail con- 
nected with the administration of affairs. The men are selectea 
with great care, and held at all times to a strict accountability, 
the result being a highly satisfactory service rendered by the 
force. Words of commendation and expressions of approval 
of the work of the force are frequently expressed to the chief 
by appreciative citizens. Henry Jennings, a veteran of the 
Civil War, as well as a man who has come up from the ranks 
of the force, is the present very worthy and faithful chief. 
The detective department is headed by a sergeant and is a part 
of the regular force. The chief of police has full control of 
the detective force. 

The department is governed by a board of police commis- 
sioners, which takes control of the matters pertaining to the 
police department. 

The Chamber of Commerce 

Ever since Atlanta became an incorporated city, with per- 
haps infrequent intervals during early times, a Board of Trade, 
and later termed Chamber of Commerce, has existed. 

The Chamber of Commerce of to-day is a powerful influence 
for good to all lines of business. Its membership comprises 
practically every leading financial, mercantile and manufactur- 
ing concern in the city, and its scope embraces every feature of 
enterprise that has for its object the furtherance of the inter- 
ests of Atlanta. A vast amount of matter of a statistical na- 
ture, carrying information bearing upon industrial, commer- 
cial, financial and building interests is circulated annually 
through this medium, and to the Chamber of Commerce, more, 
perhaps, than to all other agencies, is due the wonderful prog- 



ATLANTA UP-TO-DATB 123 

ress of the city. Especially is this true regarding its opera- 
tions during the past decade. 

The Chamber of Commerce occupies a large section of the 
fifth floor in the Empire Building, where daily market reports 
by telegraph are received, and every facility for the dissemi- 
nation of information helpful to business is afforded. 

The Clearing House Association 

The Atlanta Clearing House Association is composed of the 
following banking institutions of the city : The Atlanta Na- 
tional, The Lowry National, The Fourth National, The Mad- 
dox-Rucker Banking Company, The Neal Bank, The Third 
National and the Central Bank and Trust Corporation. 

Daily clearings and settlement of balances between the 
banks are effected through the Association, and by this means 
a great amount of time and labor is economized. Exact and 
full account of clearings is, by this method, always obtainable. 

Cemeteries of the City 

Oakland — Atlanta's Own 

A cherished and revered spot and one close to the hearts 
of thousands, is Oakland, Atlanta's oldest "City of the Dead," 
and many of its monuments rise over sections in which rest 
the remains of three and four generations. 

Oakland is situated in the eastern section of the city and 
is skirted by the Georgia railroad, one of Atlanta's oldest lines, 
and the land was purchased by the city for a burying-ground 
about the time of the completion of this road. This cemetery 
comprises about eighty-five acres of enclosure. The main en- 
trance is from East Hunter street, which terminates against 
the broad entrance. Another entrance is from East Fair street, 
which borders the South side. Near this entrance is the Con- 
federate monument and the graves of the Confederate dead, 
numbering several thousand. 

Renewed interest is being taken in Oakland, now that its 
space is all taken, its many attractions appeal to the public 
more eloquently because of the fact, perhaps, that its bosom 
is full of Atlanta's sleeping children, and those under whose 
care they rest are looked to to keep green and beautiful their 
graves. 



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West View Cemetery 

Four miles west of the city, skirted by beautiful drives which 
pass the entrance and to which the trolley cars run on fifteen- 
minute schedules, is West View Cemetery. It belongs to a 
corporation, but purchasers of lots have all the safeguards 
necessary to secure to them the protection of their rights for 
all time, as well as the assurance of the perpetual maintenance 
and care of the graves of the dead. 

West View is a most striking piece of landscape. Its topog- 
raphy may be termed ''rolling," and yet so irregular in direc- 
tion is the tendency of its rise and fall, that one constantly 
meets pleasing surprises in the nature of little nooks and min- 
iature gorges here and there which, under the skillful touch 
of the artist's hand, have been made to lend a charm to the 
surroundings that is indeed striking. 

Although but a few years old, West View Cemetery con- 
tains some of the finest monuments in the country. The drives 
and walks are kept in the highest state of excellence and beau- 
tiful beds of choice flowers bloom in every available place. 

Among the notable Georgians who are buried in West View 
Cemetery are Henry W. Grady and Lieutenant Thomas M. 
Brumby. 

Hollywood Cemetery 

Hollywood Cemetery is the youngest of the important bury- 
ing grounds of the city and is five miles out on the River 
Electric line. It was incorporated and lots offered in 1903. 
Sales were rapid and already the cemetery has become an at- 
tractive place for sight-seers. The ride is a pleasant one, 
through long stretches of forest and pastoral landscape and 
now and then a bright, sparkling stream that flows along be- 
tween cool shaded banks. 

The cemetery is upon a high ridge of land overlooking the 
surrounding country, and was one of the Confederate strong- 
holds when that army was contending so heroically against 
the onward march of the Federals upon the city. Good roads 
lead from the city to Hollywood, and the car fare is five cents. 
At the main entrance a neat little stone chapel has been erected 
for religious rites over the dead. 



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The Atlanta of Tomorrow 

As a forecast of the Atlanta of the future, a few facts re- 
garding extensive building interests now under way and fully 
provided fof serves as a striking illustration. 

A Great Convention Hall 

First is the Auditorium-Armory, to occupy a lot already 
paid for, 200x300 feet, which, in addition to its serving as a 
permanent home for the local State military organizations, as 
well as headquarters of the Fifth Georgia State troops, is to 
have a great auditorium, with 8,500 seating capacity, designed 
to accommodate great conventions, and a smaller hall for or- 
dinary occasions. The structure will cost $250,000. 

The growing popularity of Atlanta as a Convention City 
makes an auditorium of large seating capacity an imperative 
need. This is provided in the Auditorium Armory. 

Dr. Broughton's New Tabernacle 

Dr. Len G. Broughton, the noted Baptist divine, who estab- 
lished the Atlanta Baptist Tabernacle, and the Tabernacle 
Home and Infirmary, now has perfected plans for the con- 
struction of a great tabernacle and auditorium building which 
is to cost $300,000. The funds, practically all in hand, were 
raised by Dr. Broughton upon personal solicitation, contribu- 
tions of from half a dollar to many thousands being raised in 
individual subscriptions. It is doubtless true that more people 
are represented in these subscription lists than ever before fig- 
ured in a like enterprise. 

The building will be eight stories high, 150 feet wide, 
and 250 feet long. The whole enterprise to contain a lower 
Tabernacle divided into Sunday-school rooms, educational 
class rooms, gymnasium, bath rooms, reading rooms, game 
rooms for young women and young men, kitchen and dining 
room, all to be thrown into one auditorium, seating 2,500 
when needed. An upper Tabernacle with three floors, capacity 
6,000, for the Sunday work of the church and all of its large 
meetings, and all forms of religious and educational conven- 



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tions. The rear end to contain administration offices and class- 
rooms for Bible Training Schools. 

Three stories at each end of the building, 150 feet wide 
and 6d feet deep, will be for the Working Girls' Dormitory, 
and Dormitory for Young Men and Bible Training School 
pupils, with a central cafe and dining room. Four hundred 
young women and four hundred young men, in these separate 
buildings, are to be furnished splendid religious homes at the 
lowest possible cost. 

There will be night schools and classes for all forms of edu- 
cational work in connection with the Tabernacle College, 
which eirbraces the whole educational system of the Taber- 
nacle. 

On the lower corner of the same lot is to be the New Taber- 
nacle Infirmary and Home for the nurses ; these two buildings 
to cost between $60,000 and $70,000, and all embraced within 
the one scheme. 



A Great, Methodist, Movement, 

The Methodists of the city have under way the construction 
of a large central church, upon the same lot with the present 
Wesley Memorial Hospital, which is already being enlarged, 
and to which still greater addition is to be made, the whole 
to form a memorial to commemorate the bi-centennial of the 
birth of the founder of Methodism. 

This work represents an outlay of $500,000 in buildings 
and improvements upon the present site at Auburn and Court- 
land avenues. 

The Masons' New Temple 

The cornerstone of a great Masonic Temple has been laid 

with imposing ceremonies, which will stand at the corner of 

' Peachtree and Cain streets, and will be the permanent home of 

Masonry in Atlanta, all of the lodges, councils, chapters, com- 

manderies, etc., of the various degrees being accommodated. 

The Temple will show from the exterior four stories, but the 
interior plans provide for seven floors arranged in most con- 
venient and commodious form. The lot is 60x180 feet, the 
building occupying 60x140 feet of space. The building is to 



128 ATLANTA UP-TO-DATB ' 

be of cut stone, white brick and terra cotta. Interior finished 
with Georgia marble, with system of heating and electric ele- 
vators. The cost, completed, will be $200,000. 



Presbyterians to Enlarge Hospital 

The Presbyterian Hospital, already established and in suc- 
cessful operation for several years, is to have a home of its 
own upon extensive and most improved plans. The approxi- 
mate cost will be nearly $500,000. 

A New Courthouse 

The board of county Commissioners of Fulton county have 
under way plans for a new court-house, which will be the 
finest temple of justice in the Southern States. 

These are some of the most extensive improvements now 
actually provided for, and under way. And it will be noted 
that they are all of a public nature ; add to these the ordinary 
growth of business and industrial interests and we may easil}' 
claim a ten-million growth within a year to come. 

The New Government Building 

Which will occupy an entire block, and cost more than 
$1,000,000 when completed,' is now under contract. When 
completed, this structure will eclipse in magnitude all other 
buildings, and will be one of the handsomest in the country. 




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The Southern Dental College 

100 NORTH BUTLER STREET 

THE Main Building of which is illus- 
trated on accompanying page, has 
the distinction of being the oldest Dental 
College in Georgia, and the only one in 
which the buildings were designed for 
the express purpose of teaching the spe- 
cialty of Dentistry, and are owned by the 
Faculty and Trustees of the College. We 
take pleasure in showing this illustration, 
as it represents one of Atlanta's high- 
class permanent educational institutions. 
<L As evidence of the high character of 
teaching done in this college it is a matter 
of record that the graduates of the South- 
ern Dental in passing examination for 
license have stood at the head of col- 
leges with ALL State Boards of Dental 
Examiners for the past ten years, ci If 
you are interested in a Dental Education 
write for Illustrated Catalog* 

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100 North Butler Street ATLANTA. GA. 



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Buggies and Surreys, and are Atlanta agents for WHITE HICKORY 
Wagons and Drays, which are the best in the market. Mr. T. F. 
Monroe has charge of this department. 

H ADIUFCC ^^ carry a full line of Harness, embracing all grades 
■ ■'•i^i iLJJ and styles, and are now installing the most modern 
machinery for the manufacture of high grade Custom Harness, for 
both city and country trade. Mr. J. H. Timme, an experienced 
manufacturer, has charge of this department. 

AIITniVinRII F^ ^^ ^^^ agents for Pope- Waverly Electric 
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Runabouts, Stanhopes and Victorias. Also operate a Garage and are 
prepared to store and look after the cars of our patrons. Agents for 
the Exide Battery, and can build new batteries for both city and out- 
of-town trade. Mr. Paul O'Kelly, formerly with the Piedmont Motor 
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